Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 431 Energy Imbalance, Violent Surgery

[Vega's Highly Concentrated Spirit Crystal: Golden Legend, Skill Stone, Consumable. How to use: Touch to use or use from the inventory. Grants 50 points to Spirit (maximum value). Requires one empty skill slot. A special product condensed from Vega's shadow spirit during his lifetime, containing Vega's various experiences in using spirit. However, because the imprint of Vega's past life contained within is too powerful, it places extremely high demands on the user's spirit. Using it without meeting these requirements risks spiritual corruption.]

Upon meeting the requirements and using it, you will learn the A-rank skill 'Mental Force Combat Shadow' Lv1.

This was the first time Cheng Tian had ever seen a skill stone with such high requirements, but it didn't scare him at all.

Without any hesitation, Cheng Tian directly covered it with his large hand. Anyway, there were blank skill slots, and he urgently needed the combat ability that a mental power specialist should have. Obviously, nothing was more suitable for him than this mental power combat technique.

The moment his hand touched the "crystal ball," the purplish-black spiritual energy inside it surged upwards along Cheng Tian's arm, like a living venom.

Almost instantly, this shadowy spiritual power began to spread throughout Cheng Tian's entire body. At the same time, a purple flame, which was significantly darker than Iori Yagami's azure flame, enveloped Cheng Tian like a flame-coat.

This is a manifestation of spiritual power transforming into physical phenomena, and it is also the form of "spiritual flame" that Vega used during his lifetime.

However, immediately afterward, this purplish-black spiritual flame activated Cheng Tian's "Holy Demon Heart Nightmare Form," turning Cheng Tian and the world that was highly bound to Cheng Tian's power into a state of severe Nightmare corruption covered by shadows.

"wrong!"

Cheng Tian was startled. Looking at his rapidly decreasing "Holy Radiance Purification Bar" and his surging "Nightmare Erosion Bar," and considering his own condition, he suddenly realized that an unexpected and serious problem had arisen.

The source of this is Vega's mental combat technique, which contains very strong evil, shadow and other negative mental energy. This strong negative mental energy caused the Holy Radiance Nightmare dual forms that should have been balanced within Cheng Tian's body to have the Nightmare erosion overwhelmingly overshadow the Holy Radiance purification.

If this continues, skill learning will not fail, and the Nightmare Heart form will even be strengthened to some extent. However, there is a high probability that one's Holy Heart form will be suppressed by the more powerful Nightmare, resulting in a significant decrease in ability, or even complete inability to release it!

I may not use the Holy Heart form, but I absolutely cannot be without it!

This unexpected change caught Cheng Tian completely off guard. Rather, the fact that the priest system from the Ys series could collide with the mental combat techniques from the Street Fighter series was already an extremely low probability event!
Even though his soul had been taken away and imprisoned, Vega still caused Cheng Tian a lot of trouble.

Cheng Tian even hallucinated that Vega, who was imprisoned in the Ghost Cage, was staring at Saultoba with a healthy smile and his gums showing.

How to do how to do……

Cheng Tian's mind raced, his spirit spreading like ripples on water as he tried to find possible solutions to his problems in his surroundings.

Soon, Cheng Tian, ​​who was covered in black, paused slightly, and then rushed towards a certain direction of the laboratory without hesitation. The world even began to violently clear a path and demolish his own home.

"No need to come along! Help me keep an eye on those people in the cages!"

Cheng Tian's rapidly receding but powerful voice made Bazett stop in his tracks, turning to look at the Shadow Guard members of the December who had been imprisoned earlier.

The shock of Vega's mental corruption being eradicated jolted the remaining unconscious members to their feet, who were now clutching their heads, suffering the aftereffects of the brainwashing being reversed. Meanwhile, Utan was somewhat clumsily remotely directing the Metal Dinosaur Guardians, cooperating with the openly betrayed Maxima to deal with the remaining NESTS members, and even dispatching the more agile Metal Pteranodons to harass the remaining Shadowlord remnants.

Utan's operation method is basically F2A (Free-for-All). It is only responsible for guiding its subordinates to the correct location, and how to fight is entirely up to their built-in combat data.

Although he's not particularly skilled at it, with Vega, Bison, and Gulizalid all falling one after another, he still has no problem handling a clutch situation.

The door behind him, equipped with an identity recognition device, opened. Wu Tan knew without turning around that only his boss, Cheng Tiancai, had this authority. He didn't expect that the voice would arrive before the person.

"Utan! Remove the storage restrictions on the Feng Shui Engine!"

Hearing the urgency in Cheng Tian's voice, Wu Tan, though puzzled, did as he was told without question.

With a flurry of keystrokes, the eyeball, which had been stored in a culture medium and awaiting study, was extracted from the refrigeration machine.

But Cheng Tian's subsequent actions surprised Wu Tan.

The demonic corruption on Cheng Tian's body was almost solidified when he controlled the world and punched the reinforced glass, shattering it instantly. Cheng Tian himself reacted quickly, catching the flowing eyeball, and then—

Cheng Tian actually pierced his own forehead with a finger, and after digging out a bloody hole, he decisively pressed the Feng Shui Engine eyeball directly onto the fresh wound!
In an instant, Cheng Tian's highly mutated prefrontal lobe, which had devoured fragments of the Sun God Gem, actually established a neural connection with the Feng Shui Engine eyeball, which had been violently embedded in his forehead.

What followed was a swirling ink-like pattern of black and white, which began to emerge from the bloodshot eye on Cheng Tian's forehead.

At the same time, the demonic erosion that had already solidified on Cheng Tian's body actually stopped!

No, it's not just a stop, but rather the Nightmare Erosion flowing back to the Holy Light Purification as the black and white ink vortex slowly rotates, achieving a harmonious balance between the two.

Meanwhile, the Holy Radiance Purification and Nightmare Erosion bars, which were originally clearly distinct on the panel and each represented a progress value, gradually transformed into a "Tai Chi diagram"!

The third eye, which was originally just forcibly embedded in the forehead, also became as lively as a real eyeball.

[You forcibly transplanted the "Feng Shui Engine (left eye)" using violent means]

The "Feng Shui Engine" resonates and interacts with your special organ, the "Mutated Prefrontal Cortex," and your professional skill, "Heart of the Holy Demon."

[You have lost the "Feng Shui Engine (Left Eye)" and gained a brand new talent—a B-rank talent, "Tai Chi True Eye" Lv-.]

[You have successfully learned a new skill—the S-rank skill 'Origins of Mental Combat Techniques' Lv1.]

(End of this chapter)